Merge branch 'upstream'

[pkg/t-prot.git] / contrib / README.patches

diff --git a/contrib/README.patches b/contrib/README.patches
index 7154cd90981c199d290cff6e08275f64bc1dce92..59c519a603085c535983832d10e8f03c28573e12 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/README.patches
+++ b/contrib/README.patches
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ T-PROT PATCHES
 
 These t-prot patches still did not make it into vanilla t-prot, mostly
 for one of these reasons: They decrease performance, accuracy, flexibility,
-reliability or are hard to maintain.
+reliability or are a real burden to maintain.
 
 Still, there might be a chance to have them included into vanilla t-prot:
 You can send an email to the author and ask him to include this or that
@@ -15,15 +15,35 @@ are some drawbacks with it. If you keep silent, the patch will be dropped
 at some time, because noone seems to need it.
 
 
-Some patches are there because they bring *big* changes and need some more
+Some patches exist because they bring *big* changes and need some more
 testing. So if you use these patches, please send an email to the author,
 and give some feedback on how well the patch works. It will be most helpful
 to decide if some specific feature makes it into vanilla t-prot.
 
 
 
-RECENT PATCHES
-==============
+PERMANENT PATCHES
+=================
+
+These patches are updated as need be, as several distributions (that
+is, their t-prot package maintainers) use them to adapt t-prot to the
+distribution's environment. They will _not_ get dropped just because
+nobody bugs me. :)
+
+Users: Please note that these patches will most likely be applied by the
+t-prot package maintainer(s) of your distribution (if the distribution
+makes use of said Slang, mutt and gnupg versions).
+
+t-prot-*-gol.diff
+=================
+Getopt::Mixed is abandoned and marked deprecated by its author, and many
+distributions would like nothing better than to get rid of it. Using this
+patch, you can make t-prot use Getopt::Long (which comes bundled with
+standard perl).
+
+If you know how to deal with the serious performance impacts Getopt::Long
+brings along, please drop me an email. Thanks.
+
 
 t-prot-*-mutt15*.diff and t-prot-*-gpg1*.diff
 =============================================
@@ -34,9 +54,17 @@ No problem, these patches add the locales needed for them to work
 smoothly. Please send a bug report if there are some great new
 features in the new mutt or gnupg which break anything inside t-prot.
 
-Please note that this patches will most likely be applied by the t-prot
-package maintainer(s) of your distribution (if the distribution makes
-use of said mutt and gnupg versions), e.g. Debian Testing/Unstable.
+t-prot.sl-slang2.diff
+=====================
+Patch by Gregor Herrmann, making t-prot.sl run with Slang-2.
+
+
+
+RECENT PATCHES
+==============
+
+none
+
 
 
 OBSOLETE PATCHES
@@ -69,8 +97,8 @@ This patch is no longer available -- starting with v1.12 it is merged
 into vanilla t-prot. Thanks to everyone who sent bug reports or gave
 feedback.
 
-t-prot-*-gol.diff
-=================
+t-prot-*-gol.diff (first version)
+=================================
 This patch is no longer available.
 
 The feedback to Debian Bug #193937 came only from two people: the Debian